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CONGRATULATIONS TO THOMAS P. CARTMELL WHO WAS NAMED TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE 3M EARPLUG MDL.
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March 19, 2018Thomas Preuss and David McMaster settled for a confidential amount in a product liability lawsuit on behalf of an 8-year-old child against the manufacturer of the child’s cochlear ear implant and a component manufacturer. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. It alleged that the cochlear ear implant device failed after only one and ...
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October 19, 2015At the conclusion of trial, Jon Kieffer, Vanessa Gross, and Adam Davis obtained a $6,723,021.00 damages award on behalf of the family of a young woman who had been killed in a two-vehicle collision. The case was filed by the surviving husband on behalf of himself and their three young children. The defendants in the ...
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August 9, 2013Jonathan Kieffer and Brandon Henry successfully defended a local orthopedic surgeon in a six-day Johnson County, Kansas, jury trial in which the plaintiff asserted a claim of medical negligence and sought $2.8 million in damages relating to permanent paralysis in his lower extremities. The plaintiff claimed that our client failed to timely diagnose and evacuate an epidural hematoma that developed ...
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